Ultimate Garages

[celicaV8]

Probably a repost....

Ultimate garages

[ThePollitt]

yhesh purleaze!

[rustybits]

Tarty curse word for millionaire car buyers and polishers.

The COOL garages are in old, run down industrial units, do NOT have floors you can see your face in, have tools everywhere, dirty calenders on the wall, a kettle sat on top of a huge MIG welder, rusting piles of curse word in the corner, and hulking great antique machine tools lurking in the corners..

[ramirez]

Ferrari's seem popular

[samwell]

veyron enzo and fxx, think how many minis you could buy with that

[berendd]

that's not a garage, it's a showroom... guess he's selling?

[Deleted]

garages are lovely choice of cars needs a bit more imagination though if ya gonna collect car at least get some variety ;D

[reanimation]

rustybits said:

Tarty curse word for millionaire car buyers and polishers.

The COOL garages are in old, run down industrial units, do NOT have floors you can see your face in, have tools everywhere, dirty calenders on the wall, a kettle sat on top of a huge MIG welder, rusting piles of curse word in the corner, and hulking great antique machine tools lurking in the corners..

Yeah.

I tend to agree, ace to see, and visit. Personally i aspire to have mine funky bright full of tools and space to work, in reality its full of curse word, but getting sorted.

[keithyboy]

rustybits said:

Tarty curse word for millionaire car buyers and polishers.

The COOL garages are in old, run down industrial units, do NOT have floors you can see your face in, have tools everywhere, dirty calenders on the wall, a kettle sat on top of a huge MIG welder, rusting piles of curse word in the corner, and hulking great antique machine tools lurking in the corners..

Seconded. Years ago I found myself in a back street garage in Southport when my KKV Cortina broke down. It was called Rimmers and Mrs Rimmer, who ran the place, came out in her Volvo 144 (with her mother who was older than dirt in the back) to fix it (12 quid call-out charge!). The garage was absolutely full of rusting curse word including, on the top of a long defunct 4 post ramp, an E-type that looked as old as the mother with no front end that was completely brown with rust and dirt.

The place is long gone now but that remains my dream garage.

[guz]

rustybits said:

Tarty curse word for millionaire car buyers and polishers.

The COOL garages are in old, run down industrial units, do NOT have floors you can see your face in, have tools everywhere, dirty calenders on the wall, a kettle sat on top of a huge MIG welder, rusting piles of curse word in the corner, and hulking great antique machine tools lurking in the corners..

our kettle's on the floor atm, well
the bit of floor that's laid and solid now.

[Seth]

I know what you're all saying and generally agree but...



...I wouldn't say no to the contents of this one.

Most of those feel like sterile environments with no soul making the cars lokk and feel a bit dead.

[rustybits]

Not one of the people who commissioned those garages poured any concrete themselves. None of them built any of those cars they keep in them. Hell, I seriously doubt if they do their own oil changes.

All the owners contributed to those garages was a huge amount of money. Give me that kind of money to make a garage.. and well.

Imagine a stone built mill building, somewhere in wildest Yorkshire. Next to a weed-choked canal, and surrounded by woods and fields. Beside the mill are stone built garages, built like a shepherds hut. Dry stone walling on 3 sides, with a sloping slate roof. Inside these are row upon row of rusting classics. Austin Maxis rubbing rusty shoulders with barn find bugattis. You name it, its in there, waiting its turn.

Inside the mill.. a huge lift, big enough to take a car, goes up between the floors. Plasma cutters, arc welders, and all the heavy machinery of car restoration sit surrounded by half dismantled cars, held in rotating cradles, being welded up or stripped down. On the next floor, a machine shop. Milling machines, lathes, 6 axis CAD CAM machines.. Everything needed to rebuild an engine.. Or build one from scratch. Machines ranging from brand spanking new, to 50 year old patina'd antiques.
On the floor above: a completely kitted out paint shop, with multiple booths, proper extractor gear, all the trimmings. Clean as a new penny, but not half so tidy. Overspray in a hundred colours on every wall, but no dust to be seen.
On the top floor? Skylights, and huge windows, and sunlight. And the assembly shop. Hotrods, Classics, racing cars, motorbikes, and all manner of weird and wonderful customs being bolted together.

Hey, I can dream can't I?

[SpiderPig]

I think my ideal garage would be a small lock up with an F40 in it. I'd make it work as a daily driver. Be my sugar daddy.

[BiAS]

rustybits said:

Not one of the people who commissioned those garages poured any concrete themselves. None of them built any of those cars they keep in them. Hell, I seriously doubt if they do their own oil changes.

All the owners contributed to those garages was a huge amount of money. Give me that kind of money to make a garage.. and well.

Imagine a stone built mill building, somewhere in wildest Yorkshire. Next to a weed-choked canal, and surrounded by woods and fields. Beside the mill are stone built garages, built like a shepherds hut. Dry stone walling on 3 sides, with a sloping slate roof. Inside these are row upon row of rusting classics. Austin Maxis rubbing rusty shoulders with barn find bugattis. You name it, its in there, waiting its turn.

Inside the mill.. a huge lift, big enough to take a car, goes up between the floors. Plasma cutters, arc welders, and all the heavy machinery of car restoration sit surrounded by half dismantled cars, held in rotating cradles, being welded up or stripped down. On the next floor, a machine shop. Milling machines, lathes, 6 axis CAD CAM machines.. Everything needed to rebuild an engine.. Or build one from scratch. Machines ranging from brand spanking new, to 50 year old patina'd antiques.
On the floor above: a completely kitted out paint shop, with multiple booths, proper extractor gear, all the trimmings. Clean as a new penny, but not half so tidy. Overspray in a hundred colours on every wall, but no dust to be seen.
On the top floor? Skylights, and huge windows, and sunlight. And the assembly shop. Hotrods, Classics, racing cars, motorbikes, and all manner of weird and wonderful customs being bolted together.

Hey, I can dream can't I?

That's beautiful, although I'd have it on the edge of Dartmoor somewhere so probably minus the weed choked canal too...but that is absolutely spot on.

[misteralz]

rustybits said:

Tarty curse word for millionaire car buyers and polishers.

The COOL garages are in old, run down industrial units, do NOT have floors you can see your face in, have tools everywhere, dirty calenders on the wall, a kettle sat on top of a huge MIG welder, rusting piles of curse word in the corner, and hulking great antique machine tools lurking in the corners..

I'm not sure if that's thirded or fourthed now, but there needs to be two kettles - one for tea and one for waxoyl.

[leigh]

Do you write for "Mills and Boon" Rustybits? I swear I felt something twitch when I was reading that!

[stealthstylz]

Yay somebody else who had mine and my dads idea about buying a mill. There was one in batley went for a couple of hundred grand a few years ago we were tempted to buy it, rent it out and turn it into the biggest car workshop in the world.

Matt

[bstardchild]

misteralz said:

I'm not sure if that's thirded or fourthed now, but there needs to be two kettles - one for tea and one for waxoyl.

Is you serioius?

[misteralz]

Nope, I'm serious.

For squirting it right into box sections, and getting excellent penetration into seams and awkward little bitties, there really is nothing better than using it fresh out the kettle.

[stuey]

... mums oven? just make sure she doent catch you also good for baking small painted parts for a really shiny finish